Beyond Art Basel: 10 Exhibitions To Add To Your Art Week Agenda

Art can be found everywhere in Hong Kong this month

The blue-chips aren’t the only ones who’ll be bringing out their best for Hong Kong Art Week. Aside from Art Basel and Art Central, you’ll find a feast of fringe exhibitions and perhaps a few hidden gems at galleries, cultural spaces and pop-ups all across town this month.

Line of Times

Morgan Wong, “Filing Down a Steel Bar Until a Needle is Made” (2013-present), Tintype Gallery. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)

In collaboration with non-profit MILL6 Foundation, which commemorates the city’s historic textile industry. US-based duo Aziz + Cucher shows four large tapestries woven on a digital loom, Yin-Ju Chen exhibits work inspired by the argument between geocentrism and heliocentrism, while Hongkonger Morgan Wong displays various pieces including “Time Needle”, an ongoing performance in which he grinds a steel rod into a needle-—over the course of his entire lifetime.

An Exposition, Not an Exhibition

Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Artist-composer Ari Benjamin Meyers debuts his experimental art institution Kunsthalle for Music. Together with Hong Kong’s Spring Workshop and Rotterdam’s Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Meyers asks why the audiences for visual arts and music are so different—and then tries to bring the two together. Performances across different art spaces will seek to blur the lines between art and melody.

Breathing Space: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong

Vaan Ip, Lost City No. 1 (2009) (Photo: Courtesy of the gallery)

The Asia Society presents a group show by 11 Hong Kong artists, focusing on their relationship with the city. The show combines existing works within the gallery with new commissions in the centre’s outdoor area, examining the pressures of living in a stressful, frantic city.

Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture

The brand new M+ Pavilion gets its third outing in this pop culture exhibition examining changing attitudes to gender identity in Hong Kong, all filtered through the lens of fame. Icons such as Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui and Anthony Wong have changed public perceptions of gender and androgyny: M+ investigates how.

Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs

Fresh from a run at Manila’s Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, this travelling exhibition at Para Site examines the effects of globalisation and Asia’s rise, as societies find themselves fearfully searching for new direction and meaning. Artist Ho Siu-Kee performs at the opening reception on March 17.

Jiang Pengyi

Blindspot Gallery hosts Chinese artist Jiang Pengyi’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. “Away from Disgrace” features three new series which interrogate the potential of photography, while “The Sun Matched with the Sea” takes found erotic images and physically warps them, playing out the dynamics of power and domination that went into their making.

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Gregory Edwards, World Painting 1(2015), Oil on canvas. (Photo: Courtesy of the Artist and 47 Canal, New York)

The K11 Art Foundation partners with legendary New York contemporary art institution MoMA PS1 for this show. Curated by PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach and chief curator Peter Eleey, it explores how we use the internet in China and in the West, and how the two intersect and interact.

Masters of Design

Chairs by Pierre Jeanneret (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)

Auction house Sotheby’s holds a selling exhibition of design furniture. On display is a series of works from the 20th-century greats who redefined furniture, including architect Pierre Jeanneret and modern architecture pioneer and urban planning master Le Corbusier—Jeanneret’s cousin.

Duddell’s x Biennale of Sydney: Abstraction of the World

George Tjungurrayi, "Untitled " (2014), Acrylic on canvas. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist)

Duddell’s collaborates with the 2018 Biennale of Sydney in an exhibition curated by the Biennale’s artistic director Mami Kataoka. Three artists from Australia, Thailand and South Korea explore their differing perceptions of cosmic space and natural phenomena—light and dark, water and fire—in all their abstract glory.